Posts Tagged Art
Broadway Arts Festival
Posted by Culture Vulture in Art, Events on November 25th, 2009
Broadway Arts Festival is taking shape nicely for next year and looks to be another of those events where a Cotswold community creates an important cultural event by drawing on local passion and long term historical connections.
Broadway is a gem of a Cotswold village, very well known to US visitors and this Festival will do more to strengthen the link. The American painter John Singer Sargent created his masterpiece ’Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose’ whilst staying in Broadway - having fled Paris where his painting of ’Madame X’, had scandalised the art world.
2010’s Festival will be between the 11-20th of June and the organisers have already secured loan from the Tate of important studies for the picture.
Guild Of Craftsmen Summer Show
Posted by Culture Vulture in Art, Crafts, Events on July 29th, 2009
The Painswick Summer Show is a selling exhibition across a range of media such as jewellery and furniture. It runs 1-31 August with demos at weekends.
Toff Milway – salt glaze potter
Paul Spriggs – furniture maker
Saturday 8 August
Anne Rogers – feltmaker
Sarah Pearson Cooke – Shibori textiles
Saturday 15 August
Richard Bossons and Rita Dawe – stonecarvers
Saturday 29 August
Susan Early – basketmaker – “Willow World”
Val Michael – leatherworker
Open Studios Art Trail
Posted by Culture Vulture in Art, Crafts, Events on July 2nd, 2009
The Open Studios Art Trail is a unique opportunity to talk with a wide variety of individual artists and makers and has been happening for the last 20 years. Come and discover the wonderful wealth of talent abounding in the Forest of Dean during July, as artists open their studios for you to visit, talk about and perhaps buy. All have been busy creating works for you to enjoy. Taster sessions at Taurus Crafts take place from 4th – 26th July. See www.tauruscrafts.co.uk for more details.
Made in the Dean – Proud to be Seen
Posted by Culture Vulture in Art, Crafts on July 1st, 2009
Just west of the Cotswolds, the Forest of Dean is a beautiful ancient forest that is also a hotbed of creativity: known as a centre for art, design and making of a very high standard. Many of the makers are hidden away in homes and workshops, so to ensure that their work can be seen, bigartweb.net offers a virtual gallery where the work of over 65 members can be viewed.
Of course nothing quite beats meeting the artists and the Forest and Wye is a great place to be. You can plan your own individual arts tour by using the online guide or requesting a free copy of the Forest and Wye BigArtGuide. All the artists and craftspeople may be contacted direct and you can arrange to visit them all year round, for a chat, a browse or maybe advice regarding a commission.
To see and buy individual and unique arts and crafts, a permanent display of members’ work – “Made in the Dean – Proud to be seen” – can be found at the Tourist Information Centre in Coleford.
Arts, Crafts and Gardens – Making the Links
Posted by Culture Vulture in Art, Events on June 5th, 2009
Visitors to the Cotswolds this year have a one-off opportunity to win a hand-made silver charm bracelet, an extremely special prize. Caroline Richardson, based at Chipping Campden’s historic Guild of Handicraft, is seen here working on a snowdrop flower for the completed bracelet. The prize is open to visitors to four Cotswold gardens until late Summer. See Abbey House Garden, Batsford Arboretum, Mill Dene Garden or Painswick Rococo Garden for details.
Slimbridge Wetland Centre’s Summer Exhibition
Posted by Culture Vulture in Art, Crafts, Events on March 6th, 2009
Slimbridge Wetland Centre is usually associated with outdoor views over the Severn Estuary, flights of geese and swans – a firm favourite with families.
The recently added visitor centre includes a gallery and is a under-
appreciated space for art exhibitions. Between May 3rd and June 30th, the theme will be ‘At Home with Nature’ with Emma Ball, Libby Edmonson, Martin Cheek and Lisa Katzenstein bringing a mix of mosaic, ceramics, acrylics and watercolours, with work inspired by wildlife and landscapes.
Garden Art Exhibition at Showborough House
Posted by Culture Vulture in Art, Events on February 20th, 2009
Showborough House at Twyning will be hosting its second Affordable Garden Art Exhibition this Spring. Around thirty sculptors will be exhibiting works in a range of media, including stone, bronze, metal, wood, glass and ceramic. Styles will include abstract and representational, grand and intimate, serious and whimsical.
The theme of Affordable Garden Art attracts sculptors at the beginning of their careers and offers a rare opportunity to acquire original garden art from British sculptors at affordable prices.
Pieces are priced from tens of pounds to no more than £2500.Thursday 9th April until Sunday 7th June 2009. Open Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Bank Holiday Mondays 10.30am to 4.00pm.
Creative use of vacant shops
Posted by Culture Vulture in Art, Events on February 18th, 2009
“In Dursley, Gloucestershire, artists have colonised a parade of disused shops where they sell their paintings, photographs and ceramics. The flaking window frames of a closed skateboard shop, photography shop and an upholsterer have been repainted and the displays given over to a rotating gallery of 20 artists.” …. from the Guardian newspaper on 18th Feb 2009